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> Software may never be finished (in your opinion) but the budget of any customer is finite. Not if you find new ways to appeal to them once you have them as u

• ben_w 9mo ago
  > Not if you find new ways to appeal to them once you have them as users. Doch, even then. Back at university, we had practice sessions about our CVs and job interviews. Mine had a cliché in it, "committed to quality"*. The businessperson who was helping us figure out how to be any good at the jobs market, picked up on it with an example: Which is higher quality? A Porsche, or a go-kart? We nodded at "Porsche", as was the point. Except no; you didn't consider who the customer was. If this is for a kid who just wants to have some fun, they can't afford a Porsche, they've got no insurance, they don't know how to drive. A go-kart solves their problem, they get to have fun, a Porsche doesn't. (I'm paraphrasing, it was over 20 years ago now). * I was 19 or 20 when I wrote that, it was about as true as when ChatGPT writes the same: I didn't know any better.
  • joncrane 9mo ago
    This is a weird example because there are crappy go-karts and there are carefully designed and assembled go-karts. You can have a high quality anything: car, truck, go-kart, trailer, wagon.
    • tracker1 9mo ago
      Even then... you reach a point where any additional quality or craftsmanship offers no more value. Aesthetics can have some arbitrary value, but even then it's a matter of taste.